Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.2.1 bootblock failure on Gateway P4D-66
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Bill Squier <groo@guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/13/1997 12:02:17
In message <199708131545.LAA12872@jekyll.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writ
es:
>
>Bill Squier writes:
>> >We are no longer supporting the old bootblocks. Try the new bootblocks
>> >from 1.2G. They will probably fail, but we have to debug and fix this
>> >in -current for the next release, so it is more helpful to debug it
>> >with the new blocks.
>> 
>> I'd be happy to.  Where can I get them (without having to build and install
>> 1.2G)?
>
>Hmmm. Very Very Hard. You can try back-porting libsa and the stuff in
>-current's i386/stand to 1.2.1, but...

Hmmm.  Okay, well, the machine is essentially a scratch machine, so I'll
install 1.2G on it.  I assume the one from arch/i386/snap-06*/.... is
appropriate.

-wps